Un-secret snark

[azurelunatic]

God.

Maybe, someday, I will make a board/community that is for parents who can write only.

Have been in parenting community off LJ. Have just had brain go numb from all the "I can't spell and I don't give a shit" that has been displayed. Can't spell, can't write, probably can't think.

Am snarky. No longer give a fuck.

dh for dear hubby, dd for dear daughter, ds for dear son; FS for FUCKING STUPID.

-- my dh doesnt get along with my ds they fight all the time i dont kno what too do please give me some advise im desprit--

"Desprit", honey, I'm so sorry that DopeHead doesn't get along with DogShit. Were you looking for some advice, by chance? Advice is what people who aren't clueless morons seek from people. And then the other people advise those who aren't clueless morons. My advice: capital letters, apostrophes, and periods. archy you aren't, hon.


Why is it that boards devoted to the more "domestic" endeavors seem to be clogged with people who write like that? Perhaps because they were more focused on getting a husband than getting an "edjacashun"? Speaking of shun...

Comments

[weruletheschool.livejournal.com]

::snickerfit::

I love your brand of snarkiness. It states all the things I would like to, in great packaging. :D

[talmanes.livejournal.com]

I think, in this case, you need to reexamine your core user group. Computer users are, by and large, made up of cerebral loners lacking heavily in group social agendas. In other words, not a lot of parents in the bunch. This is not to say that there aren't a number of parents, but more to say that the percentage is very low.

Now, among that group of parents, most are older than the average computer-comfortable age, having grown up in a generation where computers were rare if not nonexistent. So when you talk about "other online parents," you're mostly talking about people who have computers but never learned how to type, have been out of school for so long that their English skills have atrophied, and who are generally not computer-savvy whatsoever but do not recognize this failing in themselves.

In other words, you're part of an idiot demographic, by no fault of your own.

At least they're not speaking 1337 or something equally inane. In this case it's just poor grammar and spelling, not intentional idiocy for the sake of k001n355.

[boojum.livejournal.com]

These beings are very prevalent in the fibercrafts world. Many of them homeschool.

[sithjawa.livejournal.com]

I've recently come to the conclusion that the form of "english" spoken online is, in fact, a seperate dialect. It's not (always) that the people using it don't know any better or want to be seen as idiots - they're just trying to speak the same language as everybody else.

So, for example, if you go into a chatroom, youll c tht all teh ppl there use the same dialect.

I, too, speak a dialect of English. It's not grammatically or technically correct, but it is a dialect common among most of my friends. It just happens to be the dialect that's also common among most literate English-speaking human beings on the Internet. 3y3 4ls0 5p33k 4 f3w 0th3r d14l3ktz 0v 3ngl1sh, although a native 5p33ker would be able to detect that I was *not* a native 5p33ker.

It just so happens that the most common dialect spoken in the internet is that spoken by l4m3rz. Someone should tell them how they sound to non-native speakers.

[sistermaryeris.livejournal.com]

Come across those people way too often. I recently escaped AOL and there are tons of people on there who claim to be intellectuals or "know it all" and then can't spell, never make sense and nothing ever solves their issues. They can never try something because for whatever reason, it won't work. But they never tried.

Anyway, I share your pain.

[thette.livejournal.com]

I had the fortune of plummeting into one of the most literate groups on Usenet, and followed the crowd here. I'm so happy I escaped Lunarstorm, even though they've lessened the obnoxious *hugglies* and stuff. (Site in Swedish.)